Day 9

Despite what this picture seems to say we are not in fact a demon band. This is the Coal Diggers, sadly without our bass player Ed.

Here's the musical page: http://www.medora.com/do/entertainment/medora-musical/ Hit "meet the cast" to see the bios and head shots. When they took my picture they had me stand with my feet 1.5 feet apart and they took one and said "that's good!" I stupidly believed them even though I was sure that I had done the Man Pose with my chin raised so as to give the most unflattering angle possible. As it turns out I did. Patti told me to let the rehearsals end and then request they change my picture to something flattering. I wouldn't always care but it's on the website and program ALL SUMMER. The program is stuck that way though. It does annoy me, didn't anyone think that I might not like the picture where I was looking sort of aggressively friendly?

As you can tell it was not the greatest day. We had rehearsal in the gym again from 1pm to 10pm with only an hour for dinner. Everyone was feeling tired and FREEZING (they won't turn on the heat in the school and it was 50 degrees all day. It was about 55 in the gym. So no one was having a good time, luckily most of the cast seems to understand that if you don't have a smile and something nice to say just go sit in a corner. No need to bring everyone else down.Unfortunately one of the band members didn't get that memo and I got in a fight at dinner. A fight that very clearly I tried to shut down twice before I finally couldn't hold it in anymore and snapped a few phrases before I walked off. There have only been a few stressful moments with the band and it is becoming clear that this guy is the only crack in our little band unit. On the one hand I was furious and had to screech some really choice comments about him in general to a friend but on the other hand I am aware that if only one person in the band bothers me then that's actually doing pretty well. The rest of us are besties.

On that note I have an 8am call tomorrow morning and we want to get breakfast first so I have to get up at 6am. So I will retire to my bed piled with blankets because my room also does not have heat and it is currently 47 degrees outside. Also my shoulder is killing me and my teeth are a little lose again. Not that I'm really grumpy, BUT I AM.